i need you, August 2020 Brides.

View Quoted Comment I am so very stressed-with is building our home not knowing if it’ll be done and I have so much to do for our wedding, I’m overwhelmed.

View Quoted Comment Check with your venue and all of your vendors to see if you can put a date on hold for next year. I finally decided that it’s not worth all the stress. It’s just too much not knowing. I want everyone to feel comfortable coming to our wedding and not have to wear masks!!

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So our venue and photographer (the only vendors we've signed and paid deposits/payments to) have both agreed to a soft hold on the same weekend in 2021. So far they have both been amazing and super cooperative. Our coordinator is reaching out to the venue to see if we could have our micro wedding there this year, even if it's an additional cost. That would be the best case scenario because we'd still get married at our venue and have all of those beautiful pictures, it would just be with a more intimate group. And then have a vow renewal at the same venue next year which we think would be so special. Hopefully they'll be open to our plan B. My fiancé and I plan to make a final decision no later than 5/31. Are your vendors being cooperative?

My wedding is set for August 15 in San Diego. My venue has been in contact with me and says to continue to plan as normal. The coordinator believes things will be okay by this date. I have decided to wait until June to make my decision whether to move forward with this date or not.
Hoping for the best for all you other brides out there!

View Quoted Comment I'm getting married August 22nd this year in Indiana and we are still pushing forward to have our wedding on that date. We have ordered invitations and will be sending them out this week. Depending on how many people RSVP will be our driving force on whether we postpone or not. I have reached out to the venue, photographer, hair and makeup artist, DJ and cake lady and have a backup date of August 21st 2021 just incase we are forced to postpone.

It's been an emotional roller coaster for me and my fiance. We're supposed to have a destination wedding 8/10/20 in Hawaii (we live in WA state) and most of our guests will be traveling there. We originally had 135 guests but I think with the current situation about 50 will be able to make it. We've been in contact with our vendors/coordinator and they are flexible with rescheduling if need be. Right now we are waiting it out until June to make any decisions. It's a very difficult situation because Hawaii is on a 14 day visitor quarantine & stay at home order until May 31, plus most businesses are closed. My home state, WA is also on stay at home order until May 31 but we're slowly lifting restrictions currently on phase 1. I am not sure if travel restrictions will be lifted by then and I am worried.

Are there any updated thoughts on this? I am also an August 2020 bride and my fiance and I are deciding on whether we should postpone.

Our wedding is scheduled for August 14th 2020 in Rhode Island. Right now, Rhode Island is not allowing any big celebrations for the summer ( at least for June and July). It's not looking good for August. Also, we want people to hug, kiss, and dance and not be afraid to do so. We are waiting until June 1st to decide on how we want to proceed. We are sticking to getting married that weekend and celebrating later. We have a July 2021 backupdate in case we need to postpone.

I am very grateful I found this thread; it has been helpful hearing all of your experiences. I am extremely disheartened by my venue. They refused to even tell us their availability for any date at all. When we insisted we wanted to move, they basically told us our money was not going to be refunded and to “sit tight”...so basically they are saying take it or leave it. No negotiations. I know that venues are losing tons of money but I see your comments and looks like others are more flexible/willing to work with customers. I don’t know what to do, at this point I would be happy just getting my money back and going with a different vendor. But they refer to their contract saying it’s an act of God and that per their contract this means they are not held responsible. If anyone knows what to do I would love to get advice.

View Quoted Comment Hey Alisha! Did you end up postponing your wedding? My wedding is August 14th and we haven’t sent our invitations as of yet, we are still not sure what we should do

My wedding is 8-8 in wine country Napa, I'm still holding onto the date, but really praying it all goes well. I'm making a backup guestlist, from 80 to 48 now.

Since I posted a while back, I figured I would give people an update on this thread as well. Our venue has officially recommended we postpone our August 8, 2020 wedding in New England to 2021. We plan to have a small civil ceremony at the venue on the original date with 30-40 people, and then have the big ceremony and reception next summer with 150 people. Our venue is being very accommodating and still allowing us to use the space for an hour for the small civil ceremony if we decide that is the route we would like to go in two months.

It seems like venues in southern New England are starting to realize large wedding ceremonies (50+ people) will not be possible in this area any time soon. At least not without serious social distancing guidelines, which was not really possible with 150 people at our venue.

We are August 28, 2020 in NJ. As of today, there is no reopening date with the state. We are just waiting. We are hoping we can have our church ceremony and possibly have to cancel the reception. We do not want to wait another year and I feel like it will not be the same. Plus in another year, how do we know it will not come back? That is why we are doing everything we can to keep our date.

We were set to have our wedding on 8/7 in MA but with our governor allowing businesses to just start reopening this week and each phase lasting a minimum of three weeks, it’s not looking promising for our venue to be able to hold our 130 guests by then. We also worry about the health of our older relatives and many already said they won’t feel comfortable coming. We are planning to reschedule for March 2021 and hopefully things will be back to normal (or at least somewhat normal) by then so that we can celebrate with all our loved ones! Our venue is being very accommodating so we’re quite fortunate!

View Quoted Comment Same here. I am from the SF Bay Area and we will wait until June to have our wedding celebration next year in May. Our venue is kind enough to give us a alternate date free of charge

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I feel the same way, in southeastern PA! I haven't updated in this thread in a while, but we are still moving forward as planned. I sent out all the invitations this week, had my 1st fitting, and in 2 weeks will have my 2nd fitting. I will not postpone unless the venue tells me we absolutely have to!

I'm in PA, and I was thinking about having a small outdoor ceremony in August with 60-75 people (depending on what we're allowed at that point) and then having a bigger reception next summer in 2021. I still would like some type of small gathering/casual celebration after the ceremony in August since some people will be traveling at least 2 hours and I don't want them to come for just a 40 minute ceremony.

I'm trying to brainstorm ideas of what I could have afterwards that's casual but also not too expensive. My only idea has been some type of light refreshment/meal with lawn games ? But I don't know what else we could do and I know not everyone would be into the lawn games so I'm trying to think of what else they could do. Does anyone have any ideas????

Hi friends

Our state found our stay at home order unconstitutional on a statewide basis. However, our local county /city has decided to implement a new one. Luckily the surrounding counties have not. We are looking at a venue the next county over (20 minutes away) and some a little further away to see if that might solve our problem. We found larger venues to socially distance our tables. My fiance is overwhelmed by it all but I'm telling him he just needs to sit back and relax. I got it. So if he agrees to a new venue, we're a go for August 1.

View Quoted Comment My fiancé and I just did the same thing. We were originally August 14th in Rhode Island and we just postponed to July 2021.

After the roller coaster of the last few months Oregon released their guidance about 2 weeks ago and we felt it was pretty clear that the wedding we imagined wouldn't be possible by our date of August 1. A version of it may have been possible (e.g., reduced guest list, no cake out, no place settings, iffy about dancing) but we didn't think we would know for sure what it would look like until late June or early July. I just couldn't take that level of uncertainty and we decided to postpone the big party to 7/31/21. We are still planning to elope with just our immediate family on 7/31/20 so that the party falls on our one year anniversary. Our vendors have all been great with rescheduling after the guidance came out and we were able to move everyone over to the new date. Although this really is not what I had planned or wanted I will say that I feel a huge sense of relief just having a plan, the uncertainty was just too much. Crossing my fingers for all of the August brides out there!!